A Study Of Wang Anyi’s Writing In Shanghai From The Perspective Of Space

Shanghai is the main base of wang anyi’s literary creation.All the time,she has been caring about the living conditions of people in the city life with gentle humanitarianism,and showing the cultural style of Shanghai city with exquisite emotion.Shanghai is not only where wang anyi lives,but also her spiritual hometown.The city of Shanghai in wang anyi’s text is not only the urban background,but also a representation of the living habits,emotional style and value judgment of Shanghai’s modernization,as well as wang anyi’s own cognition,expectation and imagination of Shanghai through the urban space image.The experience of Shanghai’s unique urban culture is the basis of wang anyi’s literary creation.The representation of the urban space of Shanghai is an important part of wang anyi’s literary creation.In the process of modernization,consumerism prevails,and Shanghai’s urban space is undergoing a new reorganization.In contemporary Chinese literature,wang anyi has always expressed his profound understanding of Shanghai and his concern about the plight of human existence with his unique cognitive attitude and aesthetic emotion.Wang anyi perseveres in finding solutions to problems,trying to find an ideal living space for individuals in modern society.There are obvious spatial images in her text.In these spatial images,she tries to resolve the survival dilemma in the urban process,sticks to the exploration of human civilization,and attempts to solve the social problems in the process of human civilization through this expression.This paper takes Shanghai writing as the starting point,combines spatial theory,and carries out a holistic observation and specific analysis from wang anyi’s aesthetic psychology of text and creation.Mainly from six aspects.In the introduction,on the basis of summarizing the previous research results,the author puts forward the representation image of spatial culture in wang anyi’s Shanghai writing and defines relevant concepts.The first chapter,starting from the spatial image,analyzes the main spatial images in wang anyi’s text,such as family residence,lane hall and Shanghai,and explores the cultural connotation of Shanghai represented by the physical space in wang anyi’s Shanghai writing.The second chapter,starting from the power space,focuses on the gender power confrontation in wang anyi’s text.At the same time,under the power operation,the city of Shanghai keeps developing and expanding to the marginal areas,which is manifested as the cultural fracture between the urban center and the marginal areas.Chapter three discusses the mechanism of aesthetic psychology in wang anyi’s writing in Shanghai.Wang anyi’s Shanghai writing shows the anxiety of survival,which is actually a lack of identity.It is further pointed out that she keeps an aesthetic distance while constantly building connections with the city,and expresses her understanding and respect for human destiny with a kind of humanitarianism.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the value and significance of wang anyi’s writing in Shanghai.Combined with in-depth analysis of the text,in the face of the process of urban space restructuring and modernization,wang anyi’s critical reflection on modernity.In the text,she starts from the survival dilemma faced by human beings,looks for the root of the lack of civilization,and adheres to the pursuit of value for human civilization.The conclusion summarizes the whole thesis,pointing out that wang anyi’s Shanghai writing is the embodiment of intellectuals’ sense of mission in China’s modernization process.